pinchvalve (Forum Supporter)
pinchvalve (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
1/26/22 11:32 a.m.

1985 Bitter

It would stand out at Radfest.

Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter)
Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
1/26/22 11:40 a.m.

Live the Bitter SC. A 'poor mans' 400i.  Good solid reliable straight 6 GM engine with lots of potential. They are rare and starting to creep up, but nice, not perfect ones' can still be had in the $20's

84FSP
84FSP UltraDork
1/26/22 12:18 p.m.

OK - embarrassingly I had to go look this thing up.  Apparently a couple iterations from 327 v8s to 3 and 3.9 straight 6's were available.  I'll leave this here for those of not cool enough to know what this was at first glance.

Bitter SC explained by Car & Driver

Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter)
Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
1/26/22 12:28 p.m.
84FSP said:

OK - embarrassingly I had to go look this thing up.  Apparently a couple iterations from 327 v8s to 3 and 3.9 straight 6's were available.  I'll leave this here for those of not cool enough to know what this was at first glance.

Bitter SC explained by Car & Driver

I didn't know there were V8 versions.  

iansane
iansane Dork
1/26/22 12:31 p.m.

I didn't know what it was either but that's snazzy!

Keith Tanner
Keith Tanner MegaDork
1/26/22 12:33 p.m.

A friend bought one on BaT. And ended up with...three? One is a Lemons car. One got shipped to Europe to be parted out. One was sold to another enthusiast. They're a weird mix of parts, he's been bringing in stuff from Australia and Europe to deal with stuff like strut tops. Some of the unique parts are being reproduced and there's a reasonably strong support community.

It was not a high performance automobile. He reports it as adequate in pretty much all respects. Not underwhelming, not overwhelming. Just whelming.

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter)
AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
1/26/22 10:54 p.m.

In reply to Keith Tanner :

"Just whelming."  I'm gonna start using that.

Keith Tanner
Keith Tanner MegaDork
1/26/22 11:30 p.m.

It is already a running joke amongst our circle of friends. 

NY Nick
NY Nick HalfDork
1/27/22 6:55 a.m.
Keith Tanner 
 He reports it as adequate in pretty much all respects. Not underwhelming, not overwhelming. Just whelming.

look for that quote in say what next month!laugh

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